10 Turning Points in Pharmaceutical Packaging

Life is full of turning points. Sometimes we immediately recognizetheir significance; other times it’s only as we look back that we recognize a change in the course of events.In pharmaceutical packaging, several industry-altering episodes have occurred during the years, including passage of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act; the Tylenol tampering incident; the addition of  senior-friendly requirements to childresistant (CR) packaging requirements; the mandate for simpler over-the-counter (OTC) product labels; CGMP changes to minimize the chance of mislabeling; the phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) propellants in inhalers; and the development of blister packaging, transdermal delivery systems, blow–fill–seal systems, and
barrier isolators.

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